FOCUS NEWS LATAM
Issue 14, February/March
LATAM DATA CENTERS SUFFER WORST DOWNTIME RATES
Latin America has more downtime
incidents than the rest of the world, according to the latest Symantec Disaster Recovery Study.
Organizations in the region said they have experienced on average 21 incidents of downtime in the past 12 months, while the global average was only four incidents per company for the year, according to Symantec.
The company said power outages had caused an average of two hours of equipment downtime in
ARGENTINA Argentina’s broadband connections grew by 10.7% in 2010 on 2009’s fi gures, according to a Cisco report. Fixed broadband conections represented growth of 5.6%, while mobile broadband conections grew by 41.1%. More than 492,000 new fi xed broadband connections were added, equating to 10.7% of the country and making it the second most connected country in Latin America. In Argentina 50% of fi xed broadband connections are more than 1Mb and more than 77% of all connections are in the Capital District. Connections outside the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires
the last 12 months per company, while 92% of organizations said they had suffered downtime in equipment at some point in the past fi ve years. The same amount of respondents said upgrades had brought their systems down but in Argentina this rate increased to 95%.
Problems with power supply had also affected 91% of respondents, while every respondent from Chile said they had experienced power failure at some point in time.
Applied Research West carried out its study
rose by 9.5% as service providers expanded coverage.
BRAZIL
Brazilian mobile carrier Vivo said it will build a new data center in the state of Sao Paulo. Vivo’s President Roberto Lima made the announcement as he was reading out the company’s 3Q 2010 fi nancial results. A site in the Tamboré region, near Sao Paulo, has been selected (for its proximity to a power line). Lima said this will become Vivo’s main data center, covering a total area of 70,000 sq m, 20,000 of which will make up the fi rst phase of the build.
Rittal – The System.
in October 2010, which included responses from more than 1,700 IT managers of large organizations from 18 countries including the US, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
CHILE Entel said it has signed a deal with the Bank of Chile for US$160m for the management of its IT for the next nine years. The bank previously housed its data at a Global Crossing colocation facility which had been affected by the earthquake that devasted Chile in 2010. “In our continued pursuit of excellence, we have signed an agreement with Entel to use its data processing services in an operations center that, in our view, is today the most modern and reliable in the country,” general manager of Banco de Chile, Arturo Tagle said.
LATIN AMERICA
Government representatives from the Latin American countries Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay have put forward a petition to the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean asking for a reduction in the cost of broadband in the region. Governments have met with carriers and broadband providers in an attempt to devise
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